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PROSPECTUS 


OP  THE 


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COMPANY. 


71   BROADWAY,  NEW  YORK. 


Capital  Stock, 
Nominal  par  value,  . 


100,000  Shares, 
$5  Each, 


NEW   YORK: 
MACOY  &  HERWIG,  STATIONERS  AND  PRINTERS, 


112  &  114  BROADWAY. 


1864. 


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Organized  under  the  Laws  of  the  State  of  New  York. 


OFFICERS. 


President, 
LEWIS  A.  OSBOllN. 


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Secretary, 
WILLIAM  II.  FAURAR. 

Trustees, 

REUBEN  BURKHALTER,  of  Messrs.  C.  Burkhalter  &  Co.,  New  York. 
EDWARD  J.  HAMILTON,  "        Qaackenbasli  &  Hamilton,  New  York. 


WILLIAM  H.  BLACK, 
GEORGE  C.  FARRAR, 
JOSEPH  T.  WHITE, 
EZRA  W.  KEELER, 
LEWIS  A.  OSBORN, 
JOHN  B.  L  ROBISON, 
L.  H.  ARMSTRONG, 


"        Garbutt,  Black  &  Hendricks,  New  York. 
President  of  Fall  Creek  Coal  and  Iron  Co.,  New  York. 

•*         Bergen  Coal  and  Oil  Co.,  New  York. 
70  Murray  Street,  New  York. 
69  Warren  Street,  New  York- 
Newark,  N.  J. 
Newark,  N.  J. 


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Executive  Committee, 

JOHN  B.  L  ROBISON, 
GEORGE  C.  FARRAR, 
EDWARD  J.  HAMILTON. 


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PROSPECTUS. 


The  New  Hampshire  Silver-Lead  Company  is  organized  un- 
der the  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York  for  Mining  and  Manufac- 
turing purposes.  The  Capital  Stock  of  this  Company  consists  of 
100,000  Shares  of  nominal  par  value  of  $5  each,  80,000  Shares  of 
which  were  paid  for  the  mines  in  fee,  situate  in  the  township  of 
Lyman,  Grafton  County,  New  llamphire,  said  stock  not  assessable; 
the  remaining  20,000  Shares  being  reserved  for  working  capital,  to 
be  disposed  of  by  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  5,000  Shares  of 
which  are  now  being  sold  at  $2.50  per  share,  and  issued  as  full  paid 
stock  not  liable  to  assessment.  This  Company  has  been  organized 
under  the  most  favorable  auspices,  the  mines  having  already  been 
sufficiently  developed  to  produce  some  of  the  finest  and  richest 
Silver-Lead  Ore  ever  found  in  this  country,  yielding,  according  to 
several  assays,  about  80  per  cent,  of  Lead  v.Ad  from  35  to  57  oz.  of 
Silver  to  the  ton  of  galena,  the  present  value  of  which  ore  is  about 
$500  per  ton.  It  will  readily  be  seen  from  the  statement  of  Prof. 
Wurtz,  hereto  annexed,  showing  the  relative  value  of  each  of  the 
metals  contained,  that  either  the  Lead  or  the  Silver  alone,  would 
produce  a  large  revenue,  and  that  the  two  combined  cannot  fail  to 
become  very  remunerative,  inasmuch  as  ample  provision  has  been 
made  for  a  large  working  capital,  in  order  that  the  proceeds  of  the 
mines  may  be  divided  amongst  the  Stockholders.  The  mines  of 
this  Company  consist  of  five  valuable  veins  already  explored,  and 


several  unexplored  veins,  luniiing  nearly  the  entire  length  of  the 
property,  (1(10  acres,)  and  located  on  the  eastern  f^lopo  of  Gard- 
ner's Mountain,  very  advantageous  for  mining  expeditiously  and 
economically,  having  natural  drainage  to  some  of  the  veins  through 
adits  to  the  depth  of  from  75  to  200  feet. 

The  Company  have  already  located  several  shafts  and  adits,  and 
are  now  sinking  a  shaft  on  one  of  the  largest  veins,  by  contract, 
twelve  feet  by  six  feet,  sixty  feet  deep.  The  locating  of  these 
shafts  and  adits  has  been  done  by  the  best  professional  geological 
skill,  together  with  tlie  experience  of  the  best  practical  mining 
engineers  in  the  country.  From  explorations  already  made  and 
ore  obtained,  it  is  believed  there  is  also  a  very  valuable  Copper 
Vein  upon  this  property,  and  as  soon  as  practicable  the  Company 
intend  to  further  develop  it,  confident  of  a  very  large  yield  of  that 
ore.  A  very  great  advantage  which  the  locality  of  these  mines 
presents,  is,  that  it  is  within  six  miles  of  railroad  communication, 
making  the  expense  of  transportation  to  market  very  light,  and 
accessable  at  all  seasons  of  the  year.  It  is  the  intention  of  this 
Company,  with  the  excellent  facilities  which  it  has,  by  proper  and 
careful  management  of  its  operations,  to  make  it  a  permanent  and 
profitable  investment  for  the  Stockholders.  Specimens  of  the  ores 
from  these  mines  may  be  seen,  and  copies  of  this  prospectus  ob- 
tained, at  the  oflSce  of  the  Company, 

71  Broadway, 

New  Yorli, 


Annexed  wi'l  be  found  reports  from  Professor  Henry  Wurtz, 
upon  the  property  of  the  Company,  together  with  reports  of  Dr. 
John  Torrey,  U.  S.  Assay  OflBce,  upon  the  assay  of  the  ores;  also 
report  of  Samuel  Truscott,  practical  mining  engineer,  all  of  which 
are  respectfully  submitted. 


REPORT 


or 


Prof.   HENRY   AV^URTZ. 


ON  THE  PItOPEBTT  OF  THE 


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IK  THE  TOWHSHIP  OF  LTHA5,  OBAITON  OO0IITT, 

Ne^v    Hampshire* 


Gentlemen — The  preliminary  examination,  which  I  have  made 
of  your  property  at  this  place  during  the  past  week,  enables  me  to 
report  as  follows: 

This  property  is  located  upon  an  exceedingly  well-marked  belt  of 
metalliferous  rocks,  composed  chiefly  of  talcose  and  quartzose 
schists,  which  crosses  a  small  portion  of  the  State  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  a  direction  from  N.  E.  to  S.  "W. 

Owing  to  a  large,  nearly  semi-circular,  bend  in  the  Connecticut 
River,  forming  the  State  Line,  in  the  concavity  of  which  bend  this 
locality  lies,  the  portion  of  the  outcrop  of  this  metalliferous  belt 
lying  within  the  State  of  New  Hampshire  is  quite  limited;  and  this 
is  probably  the  reason  why  Dr.  Charles  T.  Jackson,  in  his  excellent 
geological  survey  of  this  State,  appears  to  have  given  this  district 
but  a  very  cursory  examination. 

He  has  marked  down  upon  his  geological  map,  however,  one 
locality  of  copper  ore,  another  of  lead  ore,  and  another  of  iron  ore, 
situated  upon  this  belt,  within  the  limits  of  Lyman  township;  and  it 
would  appear,  judging  from  the  direction  indicated  by  residents  of 


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the  neigliborliood,  for  a  loralily  spoken  of  by  Dr.  Juckson,  in  Bntli 
township,  on  tlio  proporty  of  Mr.  If.  Lanuf,  that  thi-t  locality  also 
Hhould  lio  upon  tho  same  bolt,  or  range,  thougii  not  marked  thus  on 
Dr.  Juckson's  map. 

Dr.  J.  j^ivorf  tho  followiii;?  des(  rii)lion  of  fijinji's  locality: 

•* Two  veins  occur  near  tlio  lesidence  of  Mr.  Lang's  tenant,  Mr. 
Hunt,  on  tho  margin  of  n  small  brook,  in  a  ravine  over  tho  hill; 
and  a  large  detached  block  of  very  pure  ore,  2J  loot  in  diameter, 
was  found  in  tho  meadow  below  tho  ravine,  and  must  have  boon 
derived  from  some  vein  in  the  vicinity.  The  vein  on  this  hill  runs 
N.  50  deg.  W.  (N.  50  dog.  E.  ?)  nearly  in  the  same  dirccticm  with 
the  slate  strata. 

"  A  cross  vein,  having  a  course  N.  45  deg.  W.,  is  from  one  foot 

to  eighteen  inches  wide,  and  is  mixed  with  fragmen(s  of  slate, 

forming  with  it  a  breccia.     Over  tho  hill,  in  the  ravine,  tho  vein 

.  is  from  four  to  eight  inches  wide,  and  a  cross  vein  is  two  inches 

wide. 

"  Tho  copper  ore  on  this  estate apjioars  worthy  of  lieing  wrought, 
and  by  mining  operations  it  can  be  ascertained  whether  tho  veins 
continue  to  be  rich  as  they  descend.  By  a  single  blast  we  raised 
nearly  100  lbs.  of  good  copper,  whicli  would  yield  about  20  per 
cent,  of  pure  metal." 

In  another  place  Dr.  J.  gives  the  results  of  two  analyses  of  the 
.  copper  pyrites  of  this  locality,  which  indicated  respectively  ^2.5 
and  31.92  per  cent,  of  metallic  copper. 

It  is  also  interesting  to  remark,  that  one  of  the  few  localities  in 
.  Vermont  mentioned  by  the  State  Geologist  of  that  State,  Prof. 
.  Adams,  where  copper  pyrites  had  been  found  in  any  quant  ity.  prob- 
ably lies  on  the  southwesterly  prolongation  of  tho  same  range. 
This  is  at  Corinth,  Orange  Co.,  Vt. 

Prof.  A.  states  that  at  that  time  copper  had  been  found  along  a 
line  bearing  N.  10  deg.  W.  for  200  rods.  At  one  place  tho  vein 
was  more  than  a  foot  wide.     I  understand  that  some  mining  has 


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Hinco  bcon  done  at  thin  place,  but  liavo  no  furthor  Information  on 
the  «ul»j«'ct. 

TIio  portion  of  thin  raetallilcrous  bolt  crossing  your  property  in 
Lyman  1ms  a  course  somowliut  leas  westerly  than  that  attributed 
by  Dr.  Jackson,  (us  inferred  I'rom  <ii<'  above,  N.  TjO  (leg.  W., being, 
no  doubt,  a  misprint  for  N.  HO  deg.  E.,)  to  the  schists  on  Lang'a 
prop(M'ty,  l)eing  about  duo  N.  E.  and  S.  W.,  the  dip  being  south- 
easterly, and  at  Ickn!  45  deg.  from  tho  horizontal. 

These  schists  have,  in  most  places,  more  or  Ics-a  of  a  talcoso 
character,  though  in  some  places  passing  into  a  quartzose  schist. 

The  country  is  overywliero  hii^hly  metalliferous,  the  indications 
of  this  being  obvious  to  an  experienced  eye  almost  at  first  glance, 
in  the  very  frequent  occurrence  of  masses  of  honey-combed  quartz, 
usually  containing  more  or  loss  liinonito  gozzan,  indicating  tho 
past  existence  of  metallic  sulphurefs.  In  some  places  a  large  per- 
centage of  the  stones  of  which  the  fences  are  built  are  of  this 
chara(;ter. 

I,  myself,  picked  out  of  a  stone  fence  such  a  mass  of  quartz,  still 
containing  bnnehes  of  galena  and  blende. 

The  schists  themselves,  in  most  places  where  exposed,  are  loaded 
with  small  partic  es  of  limonite,  derived,  as  was  seen  in  places 
where  avc  blasted  into  it,  from  more  or  less  thickly  interspersed 
crystals  of  pyrites. 

In  niany  places  the  ledges  of  schist  were  st;iincd  and  encrusted 
with  Jimomtv. 

Everywhere  throughout  these  schists  wore  found  seams  and 
bunches  of  quartz,  sometimes  assuming  the  form  of  thick  beds,  con- 
formable with  tho  stratification,  sometimes  even  that  of  fissure 
veins  crossing  the  stratification  at  an  angle. 

Such  quartz  was  almost  invariably  accompanied  by  the  well- 
known  indication?,  of  carrying,  in  depth,  more  or  loss  of  tho  metal- 
lic sulphurets,  or  ores;  the  particular  ores  observed,  so  far  as 
opened,  being  common  iron  pyrites,  copper  pyrites,  galena  and 


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blende.  The  proportion  of  silver  in  the  galena  will  bo  determined 
by  the  assays,  now  in  progress  by  Dr.  Torrey,  at  the  United  States 
Assay  Office. 

The  most  important  of  tlicse  quartz  formations  found  upon  the 
property,  were  three  thick  beds,  cropping  out  and  forming  three 
heavy  parallel  ledges  at  diflfcrcnt  heights  along  a  very  steep  hill- 
side, on  the  western  side  of  tlie  tract,  known  as  "  Gardner's  Moun- 
tain." There  was  only  time  to  give  special  examination  to  the 
lower  or  most  easterly  of  tliese  three  heavy  quartz  outcrops,  though 
it  is  to  bo  presumed  that  thoy  will  all  three  be  found  similar  in 
character. 

This  outcrop,  whicli  we  have  called  JFeat  Lode,  No.  1,  is  com- 
posed of  highly  metalliferous  quartz,  intercalated  between  the  beds 
of  the  schists,  and  having  the  same  strike  and  dip  as  the  latter. 

No  place  was  found  where  the  walls  were  distinctly  visible,  and, 
therefore,  no  measurement  of  its  thickness  could  be  made.     I  am 
inclined  to  estimate  its  average  thickness,  however,  as  at  least  ten 
feet,  and  it  may  be  more. 

The  blastings  which  I  directed  to  be  made  will  shortly  determine 
this  point. 

This  lode  of  quartz  cannot  be  regarded  as  presenting  all  the 
characteristics  of  a  tmejissiire  vein,  but  this  is  of  little  practical 
-mportance,  the  outcrop  being  distinctly  visible,  and  of  great  thick- 
ness for  a  distance  of  at  least  four  or  five  hundred  yards,  and  no 
doubt  extends  much  further  still  where  it  is  not  visible;  so  that  no 
reasonable  fear  can  be  entertained  with  regard  to  the  supply  of  ore 
bearing  material.  As  regards  the  character  of  this  material,  the 
surface  indications  are  also  very  encouraging,  the  quartz,  at  one 
point  where  we  have  made  two  small  excavations,  marked  A  and  B 
on  the  map,  one  near  the  foot  wall  side,  and  the  other  near  the 
hanging  wall  side  of  the  lode,  showing  numerous  strings  and  bunches 
of  galena,  with  some  copper  pyrites,  together  with  gozzans  and 
honey-combed  cavities,  indicating  an  increase  in  the  proportion  of 
metals  in  depth. 


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A  very  encouraging  feature  was  the  finding  of  many  cavities 
or  "  vugs,"  lined  with  beautiful  crystals  of  quartz,  in  some  of  which 
there  was  much  gozzan,  intermixed  with  decomposing  crystals 
of  galena  and  yellow  copper.  A  feature  of  the  greatest  importance, 
and  encouraging  the  expectation  of  an  increase  of  copper  in  depth,  was 
the  generally  clear  and  untarnished  appearance  of  the  few  crystals 
of  iron  pyrites  found,  which  shows  the  gozzans  to  have  been  chiefly, 
if  not  wholly,  derived  from  copper  pyrites. 

In  fact,  in  some  places  gozzan  was  found  distinctly  passing  into 
yellow  copper,  some  specimens  of  which  were  brought  back,  so  that 
the  indications  are  quite  strong  tliat,  in  addition  to  the  silver  lead, 
an  important  quantity  of  copper  will  be  found  in  depth  on  this 
lode. 

In  one  vug  was  found  a  quantity  of  a  rich  blue  powder,  which  may 
have  been  indigo  copper. 

Until  further  excavation  has  been  made  in  this  large  quartz  lode, 
no  certain  opinion  can  be  formed  as  regards  the  certainty  of  finding 
here  the  regular  structural  features  of  a  fissure  vein;  but  still 
it  may  with  some  confidence  be  calculated  that,  even  should  it  be 
merely  a  large  "  segregated  "  bed  of  quartz,  certain  structural  lines 
will  exist,  along  which  the  metallic  minerals  will  be  found  more  or 
less  concentrated,  and  the  tvidth  of  such  a  lode  will  enable  such 
richer  portions  to  be  followed  up  and  taken  down,  without  much 
waste  of  labor  on  the  less  productive  tracts  of  the  veinstone.  With 
regard  to  the  further  exploration  of  this  lode,  the  proper  course 
seems  to  be  to  carry  such  explorations  from  the  point  now  being 
opened  toward  the  S.  W.,  in  which  direction  the  ground  at  the  foot 
of  the  mountain  falls  off  rapidly;  and  if  the  surface  indications  con- 
tinue to  promise  as  well  in  that  diiection,  a  short  adit  would 
in  many  cases  cut  the  lode,  and  the  subsequent  operations  could  be 
guided  by  the  developments  made.  Should  surface  blasting  show 
that  the  west  lodes  No.  2  and  No.  3  possess  the  same  metalliferous 
character  as  No.  1,  cross  cuts  may  be  driven  to  them  from  any 


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suitable  point  in  the  workings  on  No.  1.  and  a  great  depth  of  drain- 
age obtained  upon  them. 

Proceeding  from  the  foot  of  Gardner's  Mountain  southeasterly, 
wo  find,  iirst,  two  wide  outcrops  of  nchist,  the  outcropping  edges  of 
which  are  greatly  st/-ainod  and  encrusted  with  limonite,  indicating 
for  the  country  here  a  highly  metalliferous  condition — this  country, 
as  will  be  observed,  being  adjacent  to  the  hanging  wall  of  the  west 
lode,  No.  1 — a  circumstance  which  must  certainly  be  regarded  as 
highly  encouraging  to  the  expectation  of  finding  tliat  portion  of 
this  lode  which  dips  beneath  this  rich  country  proportionately  rich 
in  metals. 

Proceeding  further,  in  a  southeast  direction,  to  a  distance  alto- 
gether about  220  yards  from  the  opening  in  west  lode  No.  1,  we 
encounter  a  group  of  outcrojis  of  quartz  of  a  character  difl'ering  con- 
siderably from  those  described  above. 

Hero  are  two  well-marked  fissure  veins,  somewhat  iri'egular  in 
thickness  and  in  dip,  but  having  a  course  about  N.  50  deg.  E.;  the 
same,  therefore,  as  given  by  Dr.  Jackson  for  the  copper  vein  on 
Lang's  property. 

These  veins  each  appear  to  bo,  on  an  average,  about  two  feet  in 
width;  are  known  as  Orchard  Veins  Nos.  1  and  2.  Orchard  Vein 
No.  2  being  a  new  discovery  by  your  mining  captain,  Mr.  Truscott, 
and  not  yet  explored  to  any  extent,  nothing  can  be  said  about 
it,  except  that  gozzans  and  honey-combed  quartz  appear  in  it,  and 
that  no  doubt  can  be  entertained  of  its  proving  altogether  similar 
in  character  to  its  companion,  Orchard  Vein  No.  1,  and  that  both 
these  appear  to  belong  to  a  system  of  small  fissure  veins  traversing 
the  country,  more  of  which  will,  in  all  probability,  be  discovered. 

A  strong  quartz  outcrop,  discovered  by  Mr.  Osborn  and  myself, 
in  the  barnyard  of  Mr.  Bailey,  seems  to  lie  near  the  course  of 
Orchard  Vein  No.  2,  and  has  been  marked  provisionally  on  the 
map  as  belonging  to  that  vein,  though  it  may  turn  out  to  belong  to 
another  parallel  vein. 


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Orchard  Vein  No.  1  is  of  much  more  immediate  interest.  It  was 
discovered  twenty  years  since,  in  sinking  a  well  for  the  farm-house, 
at  the  poi  t;  E,  and  was  traced  Fonie  few  yards  northeasterly  to  P 
and  G,  \:  ..re  several  blasts  have  been  made  into  it.  The  well  is 
about  18  feet  deep,  and  this  vein  is  sufficiently  developed  to  enable 
some  idea  of  its  nature  to  be  arrived  at. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  of  this  being  a  true  fissure  vein,  somewhat 
irregular  at  the  surface  in  its  thickness  and  dip,  but  regular,  so  far 
as  is  known,  in  its  course.  From  F  to  G  were  taken  out,  besides 
largo  quantities  of  gozzan,  many  specimens  of  galena  and  blende, 
still  undccomposed.  'i  he  excavations  made  here,  however,  have 
been  but  three  or  four  feet  deep.  Parts  of  the  quartz  showed 
a  strongly-marked,  comhy  structure,  so  characteristic  of  true  fissure 
veins.  Much  more  was  made  out  by  descending  into  the  well  at  E. 
Until  within  a  few  feet  of  the  bottom,  the  quartz  vein  at  that  point 
was  quite  irregular,  much  branched,  and  divided  by  a  large  horse, 
the  vein  itself  being  mostly  barren,  though  its  walls  were  filled 
with  large  masses  of  rich-looking  gozzan.  Towards  the  bottom  of 
the  well,  however,  a  change  appeared,  the  vein  becoming  more 
regular,  about  two  feet  thick,  with  a  steep  dip  to  the  southeast, 
carrying  is  (/"large  quantities  of  gozzan,  and  its  wall  ,  which  con- 
sisted above  of  a  rotten,  highly  talcose  schist,  assuming  here  the 
character  of  capels,  or  becoming  very  compact,  hard  and  quartzose, 
and  becoming  loaded  with  brilliant  crystals  of  pyrites. 

This  system  of  small  fissure  veins  is  well  worthy  of  further 
exploration,  although,  as  before  stated,  no  hesitation  can  exist  in 
pronouncing  the  west  lode  No.  1  to  be  the  portion  of  your  property 
possessing  the  most  immediate  importance,  and  calling  for  earliest 
thorough  investigation.  Their  course,  so  far  as  they  have  been 
observed,  being  so  nearly  parallel  to  that  of  the  west  lodes,  it 
is  concluded,  from  general  analogy  with  other  known  districts,  that 
their  metallic  contents  will  be  similar,  and  both  the  galena  and 
blende  of  these  fissure  veins  will  probably  be  found  to  contain,  in 


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any  case,  much  silver.  To  determine  this  important  point,  much 
labor  was  expended  in  picking  out  from  the  decomposed  gozzans 
and  quartz,  at  the  openings  F  G,  a  sufficient  quantity  of  the  small 
particles  of  the  galena  for  an  assay,  for  both  silver  and  gold,  the 
results  of  which  will  be  given  in  the  report  of  Dr.  Torrey,  to  be 
appended  to  this. 

In  proving  this  system  of  veins,  below  water  level,  it  will  be 
advisable  to  mark  out  the  course  of  one  of  them,  where  it  should 
cross  the  low,  swampy  ground  lying  southwesterly  from  the  points 
D  and  E,  and  to  sink  a  shaft  here  at  some  point  a  short  distance  to 
eastward  of  this  course,  the  dip  of  these  veins,  as  above  stated, 
being  apparently  southeasterly.  From  the  bottom  of  this  shaft,  a 
cross  cut  made  in  a  direction  from  N.  E.  to  S.  W.  will,  of  course, 
intersect  all  these  veins  about  at  right  angles. 

To  sum  up  my  chief  reasons  for  believing  that  this  will  prove  to 
be  a  highly  valuable  mining  property: 

1.  The  highly  metalliferous  character  of  the  range,  which  is  par- 
ticularly apparent  in  the  country  which  overhangs  the  dip  of  the 
three  great  west  lodes,  and  appears  also  in  the  existence  of  the 
other  known  localities  of  metallic  minerals  in  the  range. 

2.  The  great  magnitude  and  extent  of  the  west  lodes,  which 
throws  out  of  estimation  any  near  possibility  of  exhaustion  of  the 
mining  ground,  and  at  the  same  time  enables  judicious  selection 
and  discrimination  to  be  made  in  following  up  the  most  promising 
tracts  of  ground. 


3.  The  favorable  contour  of  most  of  the  surface,  which  will  enable 
large  bodies  of  the  west  lodes  to  be  taken  out  from  short  adits, 
without  artificial  drainage. 

4.  The  unusually  rich  character  of  the  surface  rock  at  the 
outcrop  of  the  west  lode  No.  1,  wherever  opened;  so  much  unalter- 


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ed  galena  and  copper  pyrites  being  found,  in  addition  to  the  goz- 
zans,  which  are  universally  believed  to  indicate  an  increase  of  met- 
als in  depth, below  water  level;  and  the  important  chemical  reasons 
given  above  for  believing  tha*  at  this  place  the  gozzans  represent 
chiefly  copper  pyrites. 

5.  The  generally  argentiferous  character  of  the  galenas  of  this 
section  of  the  United  States,  some  of  them  having  been  found  by  Dr. 
Jackson  and  others  to  contain  as  much  as  two  or  three  pounds  of 
silver  per  ton. 

6.  The  increased  value  given  to  ores  of  this  character  by  the 
numerous  and  important  improvements,  made  in  recent  times,  both 
in  the  modes  of  concentration  of  the  ore,  and  in  the  modes  of 
extracting  their  various  metallic  contents. 


In  conclusion,  I  desire  to  expross  my  most  emphatic  approval  of 
the  policy,  too  seldom  followed  by  proprietors  of  mineral  localities, 
which  has,  however,  in  the  case  of  your  property,  been  wisely  and 
conscientiously  adopted,  of  instituting  competent  Loientific  explora- 
tions and  examinations  of  the  locality,  before  initiating  or  inducing 
heavy  expenditures  in  the  way  of  mining  operations. 

Such  investigations,  now  in  progress,  will,  without  doubt,  lead  to 
the  saving  of  much  money  in  the  end,  this  being,  in  fact,  proved,  as 
I  may  confidently  claim,  by  the  developments  already  made. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

HENRY  WURTZ. 
New  York,  August  1, 1864. 


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United  States  Assay  Office, 

New  York,  August  2d,  1864 


.} 


To  the  New  Hampshire  Silver-Lead  Company: 

Gentlemen — Professor  H.  Wurtz  has  placed  in  my  hands,  for 
assay,  tliree  samples  of  galena,  which  were  collected  by  him  per- 
sonally upon  your  property. 

I  find  them  to  give  the  following  results: 


No.  1,  per  ton  of  2,000  lbs.  ore, 

it        Q  ((  U  <(  (( 


Silver,  49.89  oz. 
31.89  " 
Lead  Ext.    "       56.95  " 
"     Gold,  1.006  " 


Yours  respectfully, 


JOHN  TORREY, 

United  States  Assayer. 


Eemarks  upon  the  Results  of  the  Assays. 

The  samples  No.  1  and  No.  2  were  botli  from  the  West  Lode, 
No.  1;  sample  No.  1  being  from  the  opening  B,  near  the  hanging 
wall;  and  sample  No.  2  from  the  opening  A,  further  uj)  the  hill  and 
near  the  foot  wall. 

The  reason  Y,\\y  they  were  assayed  separately,  was  the  observa- 
tion that  they  differed  perceptibly  in  color  and  lustre.  No.  1, 
from  near  the  hanging  wall,  being  of  a  darker  blue  color,  and 
higher  lustre  than  No.  2.  It  appears  that  the  darker  and  more 
brilliant  variety  contains  56  per  cent,  more  silver  than  the  other. 
The  practical  value  of  this  important  observation  will  appear  here- 
after in  the  working  of  the  mine. 

The  value  of  the  silver  in  one  ton  of  2,240  lbs.  of  the  dark  vari- 
ety of  this  galena  is,  in  coin,  at  $1.  rVA  per  oz.,  the  standard  value, 


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$72  24 — equal,  at  present  rate.«,  in  currency,  to  about  $180.  Pure 
galena  contains  86.6  per  cent,  of  lead.  Supi  osin,<>-  this  to  yield  80 
per  cent.,  the  value  of  the  lead  in  2,2-iO  lbs.  at  15  els.  per  lb.,  (its 
present  value,)  is  $280;  making  the  total  present  value  of  the  metal 
in  one  ton  of  this  galena  $450.  Making  the  same  calculations  with 
regard  to  the  other  samples,  and  reducing  the  metallic  lead  upon 
which  the  assay  was  made,  in  the  case  of  the  Orchard  Vein,  back 
to  the  form  of  galena,  we  have  the  following  table: 


In  one  Ton  of  Galeka  from 

Onnpcs  of 
Silver. 

OuniTH  of 
Gold. 

Vfllno  of 

Silver  in 

Coin. 

Vuluo  of 

Gold  in 

Coin. 

1 

Tot'lValuG  Tot'lValue 

of  Metals    of  Metals 

in  Coin.    inCur'nry 

West  Lode,  dark 

55.877 
35.71G 

45.798 

$72  24 
46  18 

$180  CO 
154  00 

S450  00 

"     light 

385  00 

Mean  of  W.  Lode 

59  21 

$18  C3 

1G7  00 

417  50 

Orchard  Vein 

51.027 

0.9014 

G5  98 
(U  43 

192  50 

481  00 

Mean  of  the  three 

47.54 

175  50 

438  75 

The  most  interesting  result  here  is,  that,  notwithstanding  the  im- 
portant quantity  of  gold  in  the  Orchard  galena,  the  superior  rich- 
ness in  silver  of  the  dark  galenas,  from  the  hanging  wall  side  of 
the  west  lode,  brings  the  value  of  the  metals  in  the  latter  very 
nearly  up  to  that  of  the  Orchard  Vein. 

The  discovery  of  gold,  for  the  first  time,  in  this  part  of  New 
Hampshire,  and  in  such  important  quantity,  is  of  great  interest, 
and  encourages  further  examinations  of  the  rocks  and  minerals 
upon  your  property  for  this  metal. 

The  suggestion  to  assay  these  galenas  for  gold  as  well  as  silver, 
was  made  by  me  in  consequence  of  the  striking  resemblance  of  this 
belt  of  talcose  schists  and  its  Included  veins  to  certain  belts  of  the 
same  rock,  and  their  included  veins,  in  the  gold  regions  of  North 


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Caxolina.  Slight  indications  of  gold  have  previously  been  found 
in  New  Hampshire,  in  Canaan,  Enfield  and  Grafton  townships,  in 
the  southern  part  of  this  same  County  of  Grafton,  by  Dr.  Jackson, 
in  magnetic  pyrites;  and  at  Bridgewater,  Windsor  County,  Ver- 
mont, in  small  quantity,  in  quartz,  associated,  as  iu  this  place,  with 
the  sulphurets  of  iron,  copper  and  lead. 

HENRY  WURTZ. 

New  York,  August  3, 1864. 


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Gentlemen — Renewed  exaraination  of  your  mining  property  on 
Gardner's  Mountain,  in  New  Ilanipshire,  and  tlio  further  develop- 
ments made  since  my  former  visit,  enable  me  now  to  report  as 
follows: 

An  apparent  misunderstanding  of  the  recommendations  made  by 
me  at  my  first  visit  has  occasioned  some  delay  in  developing  the 
outcrop  of  West  Lode,  No.  1,  and  some  expenditure  not  altogether 
necessary  in  the  present  stage  of  the  undertaking,  although  it  may 
be  that  in  the  end  this  expenditure  will  not  have  been  unprofita- 
ble. The  imperfect  developments  of  the  outcrop  of  Lode  1,  that 
have  so  far  been  made,  lead  me  to  present  the  sectional  sketch  ap- 
pended hereto,  which  is  partly  founded  upon  actual  appearances, 
and  is  partly  conjectural;  so  far  as  it  is  conjectural  or  ideal,  this 
rough  sketch  will  serve  as  an  illustration  of  the  general  structure 
of  such  mineral  countries  as  this  in  which  your  lodes  arc  found. 
The  section  is  supposed  to  be  made  through  the  excavation  into 
the  outcrop,  looking  towards  the  S.  W.,  the  line  C  D  E  F  repre- 
senting the  surface  of  the  country  along  the  slope  of  the  mountain, 
D  E;  the  outcrop  of  Lode  1,  the  dotted  line  D  E  F  G,  approximat- 
ing to  the  outline  of  the  excavation  at  my  last  visit.  Of  course 
everything  represented  in  the  drawing  below  this  line  is  ideal. 
A  B  is  the  "  country  "  composed  of  a  talcose  quartzite  schist;  the 
laminae  of  talo  being  represented  by  the  black  lines»    At  the 


place  wlicro  the  oxcavatiou  is  licin^-  made  it.  linpiicnod  that  a  con- 
8i(lcrril)l(»  number  of  irro^rnlmly  fonncd  brda  of  tlio  country  rock 
itself  ore  endowed  in  \hv  lodv  of  tin'  Lode,  consliluliiig  what  is 
technically  called  a  "  horse."  'J'his  jior.e,  thou^^h  c(mtaining  in 
many  places,  like  the  cf)untr\  nick,  much  niundic,  is  nearly  bar- 
ren of  ore,  and  even  of  >,'<)zzanj?  and  other  indications  of  the  pre- 
vious existence  of  ore;  and  even  the  irren;uh»r  branches  of  the  Lod(! 
itself,  which  penotrale  in  places  between  the  ramifications  of  the 
horFO,  arc  much  decomposed  and  less  rich  in  indications  than  the 
more  compact  portions  of  the  Lode  at  the  surface.  At  the  point 
of  greatest  penetration  into  the  hill,  however,  the  excavation  seems 
to  have  ])assed  beyond  the  horse,  as  at  E,  where  the  Lode  appears 
again  to  bo  compact,  as  on  the  surface,  and  shows  bunches  of  lead 
and  copper.  At  this  place  the  wall  limiting  the  ore-bearing  portion 
of  the  Lode  appmrs  to  dip  into  the  hill.  This  wall,  however.  I 
regard  as  simply  the  inner  wall  of  the  horse.  In  depth  I  should 
rc;»:urd  it  as  almost  a  certaintv  that  the  Lode  would  soon  be  found 
to  re-assumo  its  original  dip,  and  that,  moreover,  the  horse,  like 
other  liorscs  in  veins,  would  be  foaud  in  depth  to  thin  out  and  dis- 
appear below,  as  it  plainly  docs  ubov.'.  iho  Lode  becoming  again, 
as  represented  at  K,  compact  and  Jiighly  metalliferous,  as  it  is  at 
the  surface.  The  persistence  in  magnitude  and  metalliferous  char- 
acter of  these  Lodes,  throughout  so  great  a  longitudinal  extent,  is 
sudicicntly  satisfactory  evidence  that  the  same  persistence  will  be 
found  in  depth;  at  the  same  time  it  cannot  be  doubted  that  these 
Lodes  will  be  found  to  throw  off  l)ranches,  both  longitudinally  and 
vertically,  and  the  schists  will  be  "lf)i|mea  to  enclose  lenticular 
masses  of  metalliferous  quarlz.  such  a-  that  ideally  reprr>senied  nt 
L,  which  thin  out  both  in  length  and  depth.  In  places,  these  ion- 
ticular  beds  are  found  coming  to  the  surface  and  cropping  out,  bc- 
twc8;i  the  outcrops  of  the  great  Lodes  themselves.  The  red  lines 
drawn  across  tbr^  ^.ode  are  iatroducod  for  the  purpose  of  indicat- 
iag  a  peculiar  tstrrcturt  hf  thc^  Lodes,  which  careful  examination 


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ImH  iiintle  manifest  to  mo.  Tlic  bunclicB  tk  Btiiijis  of  ore,  gozzans, 
viijTH  ami  other  indieiilioiip,  arc  found  «riaiiji<:cl  in  paialk'l  layers, 
sometimes  only  a  few  ii.rliep,  ^omelimeH  a  foot  or  two  distant  from 
each  otluT,  dijijiing  into  the  liill  towanln  the  N.  \V.  ahout  as  rep- 
resented, Imt  haviiiji;  nhit  nnoilu  i  dij)  towards  tlie  S.  AV.,  so  tiiat 
tlieir  direction  of  di|i  is  Avef^Ur'y.  La,  are  hniiclieH  of  ore  are  fre- 
quently found  detached  from  llie.se  lasei  though  ii.uall)  nneetcd 
with  one  of  them  l)y  stiings  of  ore.  The  I  ytTs  thcin&( '  es,  as 
well  as  the  strings  and  bunehts  of  or'  itrocceding  from  then  will 
he  found  in  some  cases  to  penetrate  beycnd  the  foot-wall  boundary 
oi  the  Tiode,  into  the  talcosc  countiy  ben  ,th.  These  layers  form 
a  bcries  of  cleavage  jdanea  pervading  the  mass  of  the  Lode,  whi*  h 
will  no  doubt  greatly  facilitate  the  sto])ing  md  breaking  out  ci' 
the  vein-stone;  soraetinies  these  planes  pus,-  through  the  horse, 
though  usually  displaced  and  distorted  by  it.  T'le  same  system  ol 
]danes  was  found  strongly  d('velop(>d  along  th'  outcrop  of  Louo 
No.  2.  It  is  extremely  i>robable,  therefore,  thai  this  curious  and 
peculiar  variety  of  vein-structure  will  be  fonn  1  to  boa  feature  of 
the  metal-bearing  Lodes  of  this  section. 

1  wish  here  to  ofler  a  few  suggestions  which  s  om  peculiarly 
apjdicable  to  the  ease  of  your  mining  properly.  In  (Derating  upon 
such  large  lodes  as  these,  it  seenu^  to  mc  that  a  very  favorable 
opportunity  is  presented  to  test  the  applicability  (wl  ich,  however, 
can  scarcely  be  doubted)  of  the  improved  forms  of  drilling  ma- 
chines, now  in  such  extensive  nse  in  tunnelling  oj»era(ious.  Such 
machines,  operated  by  compressed  air,  would  be  of  peculiar  value 
in  mining  operations  on  a  large  scale,  for  breaking  out  the  galleries 
of  thr  mine,  as  their  use,  liesidcs  the  immense  saving  ol'  labor  and 
time,  would  obviate  the  heavy  expense  of  sinking  air  shafts  in 
many  places  for  ventilation.  This  would  be  i)articularly  the  case, 
w«'re  the  blasting  accomplished  by  means  of  cartridges  charged 
with  gun-cotton,  which  makes  i:o  smoke,  in  lieu  of  the  common  blast- 
ing jiowder. 


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In  conclusion  1  will  remark,  that  my  favorable  impressions  as  to 
the  value  of  your  mining  property,  as  set  forth  in  my  first  report, 
remain  unaltered. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

HENRY  WURTZ. 

Quebec,  C.  E.,  October  28th,  1864. 


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Warren,  New  Hampshire,  ) 
June  mh,  1864.      f 

Lewis  A.  Osborn,  Esq.,  New  York: 

My  Dear  Sir — I  have  been  to  tlie  Lyman  Mine  again  since 
I  saw  you,  and  put  in  some  blasts — a  part  of  the  specimens  I  for- 
ward to  you;  most  of  these  specimens  came  from  the  West  Vein  that 
has  been  discovered  to  this  date.    This  vein,  I  sliould  say,  is  about 
twelve  feet  wide,  running  about  40°  East  of  North,  with  a  dip  to 
the  S.  E.  about  45°.   The  rock  beside  the  vein  is  a  granular  quartz, 
with  some  felt  spar  and  lime  intermixed  with  it.      About  100  feet 
east  from  this  vein  there  are  strong  indications  of  another  vein; 
300  feet  cast  from  the  west  vein,  so  called,  there  is  a  large  vein,  tlie 
outcrop  or  gozzan  is  some  eight  to  ten  feet  wide,  and  the  sulphur  is 
oxidizing  through  the  vein,  giving  very  strong  indications  of  a  large 
champion  vein;  the  iron  pyrites  form  in  fissures,  as  it  always  does 
in  these  champion  veins.     400  feet  from  this  vein  I  discovered 
another  vein,  running  just  in  the  same  direction  as  the  former  ones. 
I  should  say  this  vein  is  about  two  feet  wide.    About  120  feet  cast 
from  this  vein  is  the  Orchard  Vein,  that  was  first  discovered  by 
sinking  a  well  for  the  farmhouse;  this  vein  is  from  two  to  three 
feet   wide,  containing  quartz,  with  good  spots  of   lead  within 
a  few  inches  of  the  surface.    The  country  beside  the  vein  is  of 
granular  quartz,  lime  and  slate.    The  course  of  the  vein  is  about 
80  degrees  E.  of  N.     It  underlies  alout  one  foot  in  a  fathom,  or  say 
about  70  degrees  toward  the  S.  E.    You  ask  for  my  opinion  about 
the  mine.     I  have  had  about  thirty  years'  mining  experience,  and  I 
have  done  considerable  exploi'ing  in  this  country,  also  in  Cornwall 
and  Devon,  England,  but  1  never  before  took  so  rich  a  lot  of  speci- 
mens so  near  the  surface  as  I  took  from  the  West  Vein  on  your  prop- 


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crty.  You  can  see  the  nios.^  on  the  outside  of  one  of  these  specimens, 
and  as  soon  as  the  rock  was  broken  there  was  the  silver-lead.  You 
also  can  sec  another  stone  that  came  out  with  the  same  blast,  about  20 
inches  long,  and  a\)oufc  H  by  12  the  other  way — more  than  one-third 
is  silver-lead;  it  is  aldo  full  of  vug-s  and  fissures,  as  all  good  lodes 
show  themselves.  A.s  the  vein  now  appears,  it  would  pay  all  it 
would  cost,  to  work  as  soon  as  you  get  tools  and  machinery.  As 
to  the  adjoining  vein,  there  has  been  nothing  done,  so  I  cannot  say 
anything  about  it,  except  that  the  surface  indications  are  excellent. 
The  large  Gozzan  Vein,  1  think,  will  be  the  best  vein  on  your  prop- 
erty, although  it  does  not  show  the  ore — there  are  the  indications 
unmistakable.  The  next  vein  you  have  not  as  yet  seen;  it  looks 
promising,  but  nothing  has  been  done  on  it  yet.  The  Orchard  Vein 
you  have  seen;  the  work  has  been  limited,  as  I  wanted  to  return 
home;  but  there  has  been  good  samples  taken  from  it;  you  took  some 
with  you;  also,  Mr.  A.  J.  Walker  and  others.  As  regards  my 
opinion,  I  think  you  own  one  of  the  best  mining  properties  that 
I  know  of,  and  where  everything  for  mining  purposes  may  be  ob- 
tained cheap;  lumber  about  |8  per  thousand,  wood  $3  per  cord; 
labor  as  cheap  as  any  place  in  the  States;  distance  from  railroad 
depot  about  5^  miles,  with  a  good  road,  and  conveniences  in  gen- 
eral very  good.     I  consider  your  mining  district  a  very  valuable 

one. 

I  am  sir,  respectfully  yours, 

SAMUEL  TRUSCOTT, 

Minmg  Engineer. 


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